Cloud Mountain Port.
Its brilliant lights made it look like a sleepless city in the sky.
Yet from the examinees' perspective, everything changed completely in an instant.
One second earlier.
Everyone was still in the crowded banquet hall.
One second later.
Everyone was still in the banquet hall.
But the attendants, elders, musicians, and even the delicious food, alcoholic drinks, other beverages, and lights as bright as day had all vanished.
Pitch darkness surrounded them. They could not see their hands in front of their faces.
-The exam had begun!
Quite a few people adopted defensive stances where they stood, while even more began searching for secluded corners.
As for Xiao Mengyu-
Shen Ye had already traced two words on her palm.
"Dead person."
Yes.
A dead person, Zhao Yibing.
She had come back to life.
Perhaps that Skinner had come back to life too.
Zhao Yibing had also qualified for the exam. Although they had not seen her in the banquet hall, she must have come!
So at that moment-
Xiao Mengyu immediately regained her composure.
The instant the teleportation began, everything went dark. Already prepared, she swiftly took the initiative to break away from the crowd.
She retreated beyond the crowd, then leaped with all her strength, hurtling across a long distance to land outside the banquet hall, at the edge of the Temple.
"Form a team with Shen Ye."
Before she finished speaking, her card began to vibrate faintly.
A line of small text appeared:
"The other party has not responded."
No response?
Xiao Mengyu froze.
She heard Shen Ye's voice coming from far away:
"Jump!"
Standing at the edge of the Temple, Xiao Mengyu looked down.
All of Cloud Mountain Port had disappeared.
Below lay an enormous floating island, shrouded in deep night, rising